Re: German teleprinter ourput
Philip Marks <philmarks-L+Gohi/[email protected]>
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JV Field asked:
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 3:41 PM
Subject: [BPARK] German teleprinter ourput
>I wondered whether anyone on this list could tell me what, in WW2, was
>printed out on a German teleprinter for the characters fig-shift F,
>fig-shift G and fig-shift H?
According to my materials ("General Report on Tunny"), the answers are as
follows:
F percent sign
G commercial "at" sign
H pound sign
However, it also says these meanings were laid down by international
convention and that "Figure shift meanings are liable to variation when they
have a purely national significance", specifically giving the pound sign as
an example. I am left with the impression that the answers above are what
would have come out on a British teleprinter of the period, and don't tell
us much about what a German one would have printed.
Phil Marks